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The large drop in immigration seen in today's ONS data will likely have huge consequences for social care.
The sector has been entirely reliant on care workers from overseas to meet growing demand.
Read our statement from Researcher @cglobont.bsky.social 👇
The sector has been entirely reliant on care workers from overseas to meet growing demand.
Read our statement from Researcher @cglobont.bsky.social 👇
Falling immigration presents problems for social care sector
Cyril Lobont responds to new immigration data from the Office for National Statistics.
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The large drop in immigration seen in today's ONS data will likely have huge consequences for social care.
The sector has been entirely reliant on care workers from overseas to meet growing demand.
Read our statement from Researcher @cglobont.bsky.social 👇
The sector has been entirely reliant on care workers from overseas to meet growing demand.
Read our statement from Researcher @cglobont.bsky.social 👇
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In 30years I have never been this upset with the continued words coming out of Govt
This includes a plethora of Tory Health Secretaries
I am not part of BMA leadership, just a GP who gives up his time freely to advocate for patients, the NHS & make sure the facts are correct
This includes a plethora of Tory Health Secretaries
I am not part of BMA leadership, just a GP who gives up his time freely to advocate for patients, the NHS & make sure the facts are correct
November 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
In 30years I have never been this upset with the continued words coming out of Govt
This includes a plethora of Tory Health Secretaries
I am not part of BMA leadership, just a GP who gives up his time freely to advocate for patients, the NHS & make sure the facts are correct
This includes a plethora of Tory Health Secretaries
I am not part of BMA leadership, just a GP who gives up his time freely to advocate for patients, the NHS & make sure the facts are correct
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Rachel Reeves can't "tackle the cost of living crisis" in her budget today without tackling PRIVATISATION
It means YOU pay an extra tax on
- your bills 💧💡
- your council tax 🧓🚸
- investment in your public services 🏥🏫
Time to end the 40 year rip off
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEoz...
It means YOU pay an extra tax on
- your bills 💧💡
- your council tax 🧓🚸
- investment in your public services 🏥🏫
Time to end the 40 year rip off
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEoz...
The hidden tax you shouldn't have to pay 💰
YouTube video by We Own It
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Rachel Reeves can't "tackle the cost of living crisis" in her budget today without tackling PRIVATISATION
It means YOU pay an extra tax on
- your bills 💧💡
- your council tax 🧓🚸
- investment in your public services 🏥🏫
Time to end the 40 year rip off
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEoz...
It means YOU pay an extra tax on
- your bills 💧💡
- your council tax 🧓🚸
- investment in your public services 🏥🏫
Time to end the 40 year rip off
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEoz...
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🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share.
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share.
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is planning to allow researchers to access patient data from the Covid-19 pandemic, despite concerns raised by doctors’ representatives.
www.digitalhealth.net/2025/11/pand...
www.digitalhealth.net/2025/11/pand...
Pandemic data to be accessed for non-Covid related research
The Department of Health and Social Care plans to allow researchers access to patient data from the Covid-19 pandemic despite GPs' concerns.
www.digitalhealth.net
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is planning to allow researchers to access patient data from the Covid-19 pandemic, despite concerns raised by doctors’ representatives.
www.digitalhealth.net/2025/11/pand...
www.digitalhealth.net/2025/11/pand...
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Tbh we’ve known this since Blair cosied up to Bill Gates on the Number 10 sofa and locked us into paying squillions for stuff that open source software would have done better www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Microsoft has ‘ripped off the NHS’, says MP amid call for contracts with British firms
Samantha Niblett highlighted government’s multi-billion-pound deals with Microsoft and ‘getting locked in’
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Tbh we’ve known this since Blair cosied up to Bill Gates on the Number 10 sofa and locked us into paying squillions for stuff that open source software would have done better www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Millions extracted in profit from publicly funded social care by private companies
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@marisharay.bsky.social @libdemlocalgov.bsky.social @zoefranklinld.bsky.social @ldhealthandcare.org @helenmorganlibdem.bsky.social @nhsfed.bsky.social
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@marisharay.bsky.social @libdemlocalgov.bsky.social @zoefranklinld.bsky.social @ldhealthandcare.org @helenmorganlibdem.bsky.social @nhsfed.bsky.social
Millions extracted in profit from publicly funded social care - The Lowdown
Social care systems in three regions of England are being deprived of millions of pounds as private companies extract large profits, with much of it going to firms owned by private equity or based in…
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November 24, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Millions extracted in profit from publicly funded social care by private companies
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@marisharay.bsky.social @libdemlocalgov.bsky.social @zoefranklinld.bsky.social @ldhealthandcare.org @helenmorganlibdem.bsky.social @nhsfed.bsky.social
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@marisharay.bsky.social @libdemlocalgov.bsky.social @zoefranklinld.bsky.social @ldhealthandcare.org @helenmorganlibdem.bsky.social @nhsfed.bsky.social
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An alarming cautionary tale from @thelowdownnhs.bsky.social about profit extraction from UK social care by private equity owned firms, a tale not heeded by ICBs (or DHSC) when outsourcing NHS community care to the private sector
November 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
An alarming cautionary tale from @thelowdownnhs.bsky.social about profit extraction from UK social care by private equity owned firms, a tale not heeded by ICBs (or DHSC) when outsourcing NHS community care to the private sector
"NHS leaders, senior doctors and the GMC warned that the increased denigration of and abuse directed at migrants in the UK was a significant reason for the rise in foreign medics leaving."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM
"NHS leaders, senior doctors and the GMC warned that the increased denigration of and abuse directed at migrants in the UK was a significant reason for the rise in foreign medics leaving."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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A new #BMJInvestigation finds that thousands of locally employed doctors are trapped in insecure NHS contracts with no access to training, career progression, or national safeguards.
Experts warn that the NHS is effectively “behaving like a gig economy employer”
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Experts warn that the NHS is effectively “behaving like a gig economy employer”
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
November 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
A new #BMJInvestigation finds that thousands of locally employed doctors are trapped in insecure NHS contracts with no access to training, career progression, or national safeguards.
Experts warn that the NHS is effectively “behaving like a gig economy employer”
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Experts warn that the NHS is effectively “behaving like a gig economy employer”
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
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23,000 deaths in England could have been prevented in the first wave of Covid if lockdown had started a week earlier, a new report by the Covid Inquiry has found.
Read more in The Doctor Magazine👇
thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/hea...
Read more in The Doctor Magazine👇
thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/hea...
Government response to Covid was ‘too little too late’, inquiry finds
Report says 23,000 deaths could have been avoided with earlier lockdown
thedoctor.bma.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
23,000 deaths in England could have been prevented in the first wave of Covid if lockdown had started a week earlier, a new report by the Covid Inquiry has found.
Read more in The Doctor Magazine👇
thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/hea...
Read more in The Doctor Magazine👇
thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/hea...
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Instead of having a coherent workforce plan, the NHS is now part of the gig economy, writes @kamranabbasi.bsky.social in this new Editor's Choice
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
November 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Instead of having a coherent workforce plan, the NHS is now part of the gig economy, writes @kamranabbasi.bsky.social in this new Editor's Choice
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
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NHS still failing to prioritise most serious emergency patients - John Lister
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NHS still failing to prioritise most serious emergency patients - The Lowdown
Last month a report from Age UK, ‘The Longest Wait,’ highlighted the extraordinary growth of delays in treatment for older patients requiring emergency admission to hospital. Its summary makes shockin...
lowdownnhs.info
November 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
NHS still failing to prioritise most serious emergency patients - John Lister
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lowdownnhs.info/emergency-ca...
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Really good article, primarily re medical recruitment and selection. Well worth a read.
NHS workforce plans in chaos amid vacancies and unemployed professionals - by John Lister
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NHS workforce plans in chaos amid vacancies and unemployed professionals - The Lowdown
Resident doctors’ strikes are happening for reasons beyond pay. While Wes Streeting says there can be no better than a 2.5% pay rise in 2026—below inflation—this weakens the idea that ministers want t...
lowdownnhs.info
November 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Really good article, primarily re medical recruitment and selection. Well worth a read.
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YOUR GP - HERE FOR YOU - A NEW CONTRACT
It’s time for a new contract between you, your GP & the Government
For too long GP have been restricted in providing care by top down contracts with limited funding, which don’t put patients first
GPs need your support in providing this
It’s time for a new contract between you, your GP & the Government
For too long GP have been restricted in providing care by top down contracts with limited funding, which don’t put patients first
GPs need your support in providing this
November 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
YOUR GP - HERE FOR YOU - A NEW CONTRACT
It’s time for a new contract between you, your GP & the Government
For too long GP have been restricted in providing care by top down contracts with limited funding, which don’t put patients first
GPs need your support in providing this
It’s time for a new contract between you, your GP & the Government
For too long GP have been restricted in providing care by top down contracts with limited funding, which don’t put patients first
GPs need your support in providing this
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1/ How does the COVID Inquiry's Module 2 report align with what we said in @independentsage.bsky.social at the time? A 🧵on Transparency, Early & Decisive Action, Scientific Advice, Integration of Social & Economic Harms, Communication and Behavioural Science, Governance, Data and Preparedness
November 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
1/ How does the COVID Inquiry's Module 2 report align with what we said in @independentsage.bsky.social at the time? A 🧵on Transparency, Early & Decisive Action, Scientific Advice, Integration of Social & Economic Harms, Communication and Behavioural Science, Governance, Data and Preparedness
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A powerful piece from @drrachelclarke.com
"The collective amnesia of those damned by the Covid inquiry is pernicious and unforgivable..."
We will never forget. ❤️
"The collective amnesia of those damned by the Covid inquiry is pernicious and unforgivable..."
We will never forget. ❤️
"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
A powerful piece from @drrachelclarke.com
"The collective amnesia of those damned by the Covid inquiry is pernicious and unforgivable..."
We will never forget. ❤️
"The collective amnesia of those damned by the Covid inquiry is pernicious and unforgivable..."
We will never forget. ❤️
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‘Herd impunity’
Brilliantly scathing piece by @drrachelclarke.com on Boris Johnson’s response to covid inquiry report. He says we’re ’wangling on’ about deaths.
His & others’ re-writing of history & ridiculous critique of ‘hindsight’ will not succeed.
@cbffjuk.bsky.social
Brilliantly scathing piece by @drrachelclarke.com on Boris Johnson’s response to covid inquiry report. He says we’re ’wangling on’ about deaths.
His & others’ re-writing of history & ridiculous critique of ‘hindsight’ will not succeed.
@cbffjuk.bsky.social
"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
‘Herd impunity’
Brilliantly scathing piece by @drrachelclarke.com on Boris Johnson’s response to covid inquiry report. He says we’re ’wangling on’ about deaths.
His & others’ re-writing of history & ridiculous critique of ‘hindsight’ will not succeed.
@cbffjuk.bsky.social
Brilliantly scathing piece by @drrachelclarke.com on Boris Johnson’s response to covid inquiry report. He says we’re ’wangling on’ about deaths.
His & others’ re-writing of history & ridiculous critique of ‘hindsight’ will not succeed.
@cbffjuk.bsky.social
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I’ll never forget. In the first wave, I saw more death than I was accustomed to even as a medical consultant. I saw my colleagues become disheartened yet they kept working. The trolling by anti-science individuals, including some politicians was nauseating. Eg 👇 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Tory MP criticised for sharing message on ‘abusive’ school mask policy
Sir Desmond has frequently criticised the government’s Covid restrictions
www.independent.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
I’ll never forget. In the first wave, I saw more death than I was accustomed to even as a medical consultant. I saw my colleagues become disheartened yet they kept working. The trolling by anti-science individuals, including some politicians was nauseating. Eg 👇 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Baroness Heather Hallett, "Had the lockdown been imposed one week earlier than the 23rd of March, the evidence suggests the number of deaths in England alone in the first wave, would have been reduced by 48%, that's 23,000 fewer deaths"
November 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Baroness Heather Hallett, "Had the lockdown been imposed one week earlier than the 23rd of March, the evidence suggests the number of deaths in England alone in the first wave, would have been reduced by 48%, that's 23,000 fewer deaths"
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Damage due GP access change
1,300 practices - representing almost 14m patients - following the contract change
42% of GP practices ⬇️ face-to-face appts
45% redeploying staff to cope
74% workload ⬆️
68% reported ⬆️ stress
54% said their working hours ⬆️
www.gponline.com/bma-poll-rev...
1,300 practices - representing almost 14m patients - following the contract change
42% of GP practices ⬇️ face-to-face appts
45% redeploying staff to cope
74% workload ⬆️
68% reported ⬆️ stress
54% said their working hours ⬆️
www.gponline.com/bma-poll-rev...
BMA poll reveals scale of damage to patient care from online GP access change
Most GP practices say disputed changes to online access have negatively affected patient care, with more than two in five forced to reduce face-to-face appointments and GPs reporting serious risks of ...
www.gponline.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Damage due GP access change
1,300 practices - representing almost 14m patients - following the contract change
42% of GP practices ⬇️ face-to-face appts
45% redeploying staff to cope
74% workload ⬆️
68% reported ⬆️ stress
54% said their working hours ⬆️
www.gponline.com/bma-poll-rev...
1,300 practices - representing almost 14m patients - following the contract change
42% of GP practices ⬇️ face-to-face appts
45% redeploying staff to cope
74% workload ⬆️
68% reported ⬆️ stress
54% said their working hours ⬆️
www.gponline.com/bma-poll-rev...
‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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1 in 4 patients facing tooth extractions under general anaesthetic in Scotland are waiting over a year.
We've gathered the evidence.
Our patients deserve better.
👇
https://www.bda.org/news-and-opinion/blog/scotland-scandalous-waits-for-dental-general-anaesthetics-must-be-addressed/
We've gathered the evidence.
Our patients deserve better.
👇
https://www.bda.org/news-and-opinion/blog/scotland-scandalous-waits-for-dental-general-anaesthetics-must-be-addressed/
November 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
1 in 4 patients facing tooth extractions under general anaesthetic in Scotland are waiting over a year.
We've gathered the evidence.
Our patients deserve better.
👇
https://www.bda.org/news-and-opinion/blog/scotland-scandalous-waits-for-dental-general-anaesthetics-must-be-addressed/
We've gathered the evidence.
Our patients deserve better.
👇
https://www.bda.org/news-and-opinion/blog/scotland-scandalous-waits-for-dental-general-anaesthetics-must-be-addressed/